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| From | "Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: somersd error message |
| Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:36:25 +0000 |
Best wishes Roger Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil Lecturer in Medical Statistics Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College London Royal Brompton Campus Room 33, Emmanuel Kaye Building 1B Manresa Road London SW3 6LR UNITED KINGDOM Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 8121 ext 3381 Fax: +44 (0)20 7351 8322 Email: r.newson@imperial.ac.uk Web page: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/ Departmental Web page: http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/nhli/respiration/popgenetics/reph/ Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution. On 31/10/2012 11:46, Barry Quinn wrote:
Roger, It is very strange as after restarting and running -mata: mata query- I get Mata settings set matastrict off set matalnum off set mataoptimize on set matafavor space may be space or speed set matacache 400 kilobytes set matalibs lmatabase;lmataado;lmataopt;lmatasem;lsomersd set matamofirst off which now includes the lsomersd.mlib. But still this previous error message persists Barry On 31 Oct 2012, at 11:08, Roger B. Newson wrote:Yes, as Maarten says, that is essentially the problem, and it is one that I am commonly asked about privately. My standard answer is given below. Best wishes Roger **** BEGINNING OF STANDARD ANSWER - CUT HERE I think the solution here is to exit Stata after downloading - somersd-, and then to launch Stata again, and then to try to use -somersd- (or -cendif- or -censlope-). The reason that this usually works is that -somersd- contains a Mata library, containing several Mata programs such as - tidottree()-. Stata usually has a path of Mata libraries, which it searches for Mata programs. If you type, in Stata, . mata: mata query then Stata will give some output similar to: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mata settings set matastrict off set matalnum off set mataoptimize on set matafavor space may be space or speed set matacache 400 kilobytes set matalibs lmatabase;lmataado;lmataopt;lmatasem;lmoremata;lmoremata10;lsomersd;ltt;l_cfrmt set matamofirst off This strange output gives the Mata settings, which include -set matalibs-, which gives the path of Mata libraries searched. In this case, this path includes -lsomersd.milb-, the Mata library installed with the -somersd- package. However, in some versions of Stata, if you install -somersd-, then the -set matalibs- path is not immediately updated to include - lsomersd.mlib-. In these versions of Stata, if you exit and then re-launch, then Stata builds the new -set matalibs- path at launch time, by searching its ado-file path for -.mlib- files. At that point, Stata will find - lsomersd.mlib- and ad it to the path. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any more queries. **** END OF STANDARD ANSWER - CUT HERE Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil Lecturer in Medical Statistics Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College London Royal Brompton Campus Room 33, Emmanuel Kaye Building 1B Manresa Road London SW3 6LR UNITED KINGDOM Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 8121 ext 3381 Fax: +44 (0)20 7351 8322 Email: r.newson@imperial.ac.uk Web page: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/ Departmental Web page: http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/nhli/respiration/popgenetics/reph/ Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution. On 31/10/2012 11:01, Maarten Buis wrote:--- On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Barry Quinn wrote:I am using Stata12 on a Mac and have recently used -ssc install- to install the above package. i am continually get the following error when running the command tidotforsomersd(): 3499 tidottree() not found <istmt>: - function returned error r(3499); my Stata12 is updated to the latest version and i have used the auto.dta example from the help file which also produces the above error.I suspect that the problem is that -somersd- uses a pre-compiled Mata function library. In order for Mata (and thus Stata ( and thus -somersd-)) to use it, it first needs to add it to its index. However, this does not happen automatically after you install a program with -ssc-. The reason is that that would also clear the Mata (not Stata) memory, which would be very un-stataish behavior for a Stata program like -ssc-, though probably unproblematic in most cases. As soon as you restart Stata, Stata will automatically index the necessary Mata functions and -somersd- should run. Alternatively, you don't have to restart Stata if you type -mata:mata mlib index-. Anyhow, if this is the problem than this issue only bites in the Stata session in which you installed -somersd-. -- Maarten --------------------------------- Maarten L. Buis WZB Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl --------------------------------- * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/* * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/* * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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